Established in 1994, Pražská strojírna develops and manufactures rail structures and turnout systems for tramways and serves customers across Europe, North America, and Africa. Pražská strojírna has two locations in Prague, Czech Republic. “Our IT infrastructure consists of 6 physical servers and 20 ESXi hosts across two different locations. Both locations are connected by LAN to provide disaster recovery, in case of an emergency situation at one location. VMware VMs store different kinds of data and applications, everything from DC, proxy, email, to Microsoft SQL and CRM,” says Ondra Havlí?ek, ICT Manager at Pražská strojírna.

“We wanted to ensure uninterrupted development and manufacturing of our products, that is why we invested in virtualization. VM backups help us guarantee continuous enterprise operations, and also proper circulation of materials. Moreover, the know-how about our products and services is stored in the VMware VMs,” says Ondra.

“The two previous backup solutions that we used were quite expensive, as well as they were lagging in terms of performance. VM backups were slow and required constant monitoring, and VM recovery tests took ages to complete. That is why we decided to contact our partner, exTerra Services, for a recommendation on a more reliable solution that would help us reach our goal of improving VM backup and recovery speed and maintaining copies of backups in two different locations,” says Ondra.

exTerra Services introduced NAKIVO Backup & Replication to Pražská strojírna as a possible solution to problems with VM backups and as a DR implementation. “The installation was a part of the product introduction on the partner’s seminar and the simplicity of the solution was so unexpected that we agreed to a POC. After using the trial version, we decided to purchase NAKIVO Backup & Replication because the software was easy to use, fast, and had the features that we needed,” says Ondra.

Installing NAKIVO Backup & Replication directly on their Synology NAS, Pražská strojírna created a VM backup appliance. “With NAKIVO Backup & Replication installed on Synology NAS, VM backups are so fast that we’re able to fully use the bandwidth available to the NAS,” says Ondra. “Moreover, NAKIVO Backup & Replication can use all the space available on the device to store VM backups.”

“Since we have two locations, we wanted to protect our data and applications against unexpected disasters and VM failures, so by having not one, but multiple copies of backups, we wanted to ensure an extra level of safety. Backup copy enables us to quickly send copies of backups to both locations. Backup copies are consistent with the actual backup jobs and we can recover data from them, whenever we want,” says Ondra.

With NAKIVO Backup & Replication installed on Synology NAS, Pražská strojírna increased VM backup speed by 2X. With NAKIVO Backup & Replication, the company is now able to maintain copies of backups in two different locations. “NAKIVO Backup & Replication greatly simplified the way in which VM backups are done and dramatically increased backup speed, due to installation on Synology NAS. With the backup copy feature, we are now able to quickly move new backups to another location, without overloading the operating infrastructure and VMware VMs. Overall, with NAKIVO Backup & Replication, we were able to save 70% of time on backup administration,” says Ondra.

RESOURCES

Datasheet: www.nakivo.com/resources/nakivo-vm-backup-datasheet.pdf

Success Stories: www.nakivo.com/customers/success-story.html

Trial Download: www.nakivo.com/vmware/vmware-backup-trial.html

ABOUT Pražská Strojírna
The joint stock company “Pražská strojírna a.s.” was established on April 1, 1994. The company’s development team is capable of solving even the most complex problems related to city and suburban rail transportation. Development and manufacture of rail structures and setting devices for tramway transportation form the fundamental line of business. Comprehensive servicing of setting devices is extended to other components, such as tramway turnouts with flexible replaceable blades in various modifications based on customer demands, turnout heating, track drainage, and other engineering products. For more information, visit www.pstroj.cz

ABOUT NAKIVO
Headquartered in Silicon Valley, NAKIVO Inc. is a privately-held company founded in 2012. NAKIVO develops a fast, reliable, and affordable data protection solution for VMware and Amazon Cloud environments. As of Q4 2016, over 10,000 companies are using NAKIVO Backup & Replication to protect and recover their data more efficiently and cost effectively. Also, over 140 hosting, managed, and cloud services providers are using NAKIVO to deliver VM BaaS and DRaaS to their customers. NAKIVO has over 1,500 channel partners in 117 countries worldwide. Visit www.nakivo.com to learn more.